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Feb. 24, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Remembering centurium Alphonzo Barbour—eyewitness to African American history
The Coast Guard's 8th MCPOCG shares his time with a centenarian.
Feb. 17, 2023
The Long Blue Line: The mystery of “River Cutter” Yocona the Coast Guard's first desegregated cutter homeported in the Deep South.
Homeported in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cutter Yocona’s achievement remains an important chapter in American minority history.
Feb. 10, 2023
The Long Blue Line: WWII recruit training at Manhattan Beach and desegregating the U.S. military
Many African American Coast Guard recruits trained in the New York facility prior to serving their country.
Feb. 3, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Keeper Richard Etheridge and the Gold Medal lifesavers of Pea Island
The first African American officer-in-charge of a military installation.
Jan. 13, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Senior Chief Richard Dixon—heavy-weather coxswain during powerful Fourth of July
Two notable rescues in the same weekend
Jan. 6, 2023
The Long Blue Line: Thetis—Hawaii’s first cutter and Teddy Roosevelt’s guardian of endangered seabirds
At the time of the visit of the party, in summer of 1911, heaps of the bodies of the slain still lay on the ground, mute witnesses of the sad fate that had overtaken these beautiful birds. Henry W. Henshaw, Chief, U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, 1911 Henry Henshaw was not only chief of the federal bureau overseeing threatened species over 100
Dec. 30, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Capt. von Paulsen’s New Year’s Day aviation rescue near Miami
Before all was said and done, the rescue turned to survival for the rescuers.
Dec. 23, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Lighthouses and the history of ‘The Flying Santa’
The Flying Santa, delivering gifts for more than 90 years.
Dec. 9, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Harry Hamlet’s rescue of Navy convoy 100 years ago!
Shortly after World War I, a remarkable event demonstrated the caliber of Coast Guard officers.
Dec. 2, 2022
The Long Blue Line: Benjamin Bottoms—Arctic aviator, wartime hero served with Lt. John Prichard
Enlisted aviation hero and namesake for new FRC.